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Oxford [Postmark 14 Ap 1825] MY DEAR KELSALL,--If you have no inclination to insert yourself in the Oxford coach wh: passes by the top of Houndwell St at 8 each morning, wh I think you could do as easily as visit Fareham. I will thank you if you will pick the lock of my trunk put all the books &c into it & send it to me here as soon as convenient. I hope you have been very dull and tired with the MSS I sent you, headache and hypochondria were what you deserved for snapping the thread wh suspended such a weight of lead above your unhappy and now suffering brainpan. I left Procter writing, more for the Edinburgh, New Monthly, & retrospective, I fear, than for the drama; he is locked up every morning from 10 till 1/2 p. 1 by his wife with 1/2 a quire of foolscap & a quill--Why did you not, when last in town, pay your respects to Mrs. Shelley at Kentish town? I saw the other day, very well, & enjoying the Italian April, Mr. White, who, I find, is in very low repute here just at present, [he] has been writing an obliging continuation of Don Juan--to moralize the noble Spaniard. Knight is going to resuscitate his magazine, excluding original poetry entirely, what will cousin Moultrie say? Mr. Praed has lately become a private tutor at Eton; this has chagrined all his poetical friends exceedingly. Pray do not attribute any of the Oxford Magazine to me; but come up here as soon as you can--& bring my things with you, all turned into the trunk if possible--have no mercy on the lock; it is a vile one. Yours truly Addressed toT.L. BEDDOES "T.F. KELSALL Esqre 3 Houndwell Lane Southampton Back Home |